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E-0083194event The area Ohrigstad River in the Lydenburg district is proclaimed as a public gold field after the discovery of gold in the Sela11 May 2012✓
E-0083159event King Hintsa ka Phalo of the Xhosa nation is killed by British troops.   Another source alleges that he was shot dead by a c11 May 2012✓
E-0083154event South Africa enters the ranks of the world’s oil-producing countries when oil for commercial use is pumped from the Oribi oilfi11 May 2012✓
E-0083105event Sir George Napier annexes Natal for Britain. It became a district of the Cape Colony on 31 May 1844. (Muller: 500 Years: a hist11 May 2012–
E-0083098event Andre George Ezra Coetzee, SA soccer player and lawyer who was awarded the accolade, ‘Playmaker of the Decade’ by Kick Off for11 May 2012✓
E-0082910event 104 miners are crushed to death when an elevator carrying gold miners plunges to the bottom of a Vaal Reef mineshaft near Orkne7 May 2012✓
E-0082854event Abram (Bram) Fischer is sentenced to life imprisonment on the charge of conspiracy with the ANC and Umkhonto we Sizwe to commit7 May 2012✓
E-0082852event Two delegates of the UN, Dr Victorio Carpio and Dr Salvadore Martinez de Alva, visit South West Africa (now Namibia) after talk7 May 2012✓
E-0082843event Death of Sir Henry Morton Stanley. Famous for his 1,500-mile safari into Central Africa in 1871 to find Dr Livingstone.7 May 2012✓
E-0082837event The Rev. Andrew Murray, DRC minister and educationalist, and second son of Andrew Murray sr. (1794-1866), is born in Graaff-Rei7 May 2012✓
E-0082813event Following the arrest of Jomo Kenyatta and over a thousand Mau Mau suspects the previous month, the Mau Mau carry out their bigg7 May 2012✓
E-0082787event Legislators in Johannesburg take oaths of office and Blacks and Whites sit down together for the first time to govern South Afr7 May 2012✓
E-0082739event A section of railway line is blown up near Hoedspruit, Northern Transvaal, in what is believed to be an ANC attack to coincide7 May 2012✓
E-0082674event Sierra Leone rebels seize peacekeepers from Zambia, raising to more than 300 the number of UN personnel they are believed to be3 May 2012✓
E-0082537event John Hanning Speke, British explorer who discovered the origin of the Nile and the first European to see Lake Victoria, is born3 May 2012✓
E-0082359event First ever multi-racial elections held in South Africa ends, with the ANC receiving 62.6% of the votes and the National Party 223 Apr 2012✓
E-0082281event The Rand daily Mail reports that ninety-six White soldiers walked out of a camp in April in protest against alleged poor food a23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082234event Mary Bailey, wife of the SA magnate Sir Abe Bailey, lands on Swartkops airfield, Pretoria, and leaves again for London, to beco23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082182event Frederick Logier, German music teacher at the Cape and composer of the first published music in Cape Town, is born in Ireland.23 Apr 2012–
E-0082157event Frederick Logier, German music teacher at the Cape and composer of the first published music in Cape Town, is born in Ireland.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082138event Hermien van Vuuren, first wife of Fanie van Vuuren, CP-MP for Carletonville in the previous government, is shot outside her hom23 Apr 2012–
E-0082137event Hermien van Vuuren, first wife of Fanie van Vuuren, CP-MP for Carletonville in the previous government, is shot outside her hom23 Apr 2012✓
E-0082125event Under an amendment to the Defence Act the definition of superior officer is changed with the effect that White and Black member23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081482event George McCall Theal, historian and first archivist appointed by the Cape government, is born in Canada. He was the author of se5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081460event Debarkation of the first British Settlers starts at Algoa Bay (now Port Elizabeth) in the Eastern Cape, from where they are gra5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081152event Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo) severs ties with Cuba when they are implicated in the rebellion in Shaba (was the Kata30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081092event The Union Jack is lowered and British occupation of Simonstown comes to an end after 143 years. South Africa takes formal posse30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081079event Anglo-Boer War 2: Jan (alias George) Malhombe is executed by the British under Baden-Powell because he was found guilty of stea30 Mar 2012–
E-0081068event Cornelis de Houtman leaves the Netherlands for the Cape with four ships in search of a sea route to the East Indies. Muller: V30 Mar 2012✓
E-0081017event Ayanda Bam, executive chair of Kuyasa Mining, the first Black owned mining house in SA, is born in King Williams’ Town, Transke30 Mar 2012✓

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